The document then*…begins to designate the King of France who is catalogued as follows:
Portrait of Louis XV of France by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
“The glory of the great princes of the faith of Jesus, the highest of the great and the magnificent of the religion of the Messiah, the arbitrator and the mediator of the affairs of Christian nations, clothed with the true marks of honour and of dignity, full of grandeur of glory and of majesty, the Emperor of France and of the other vast kingdoms which belong thereto, our most magnificent most honoured sincere and ancient friend Louis XV to whom may God accord all success and happiness having sent to our august Court which is the seat of the Caliphat…a letter containing evidences of the most perfect sincerity, and of the most particular affection candour and straightforwardness, and the said letter being destined to our Sublime Porte of felicity“….
* This document is part of the Frenell Treaty in IJ.Kt Willi Turkey, written by the Emperor Sultan Mahmud, son of the Sultan Moustapha.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, no. 619, Jan.-June 1874, vol. 115, p. 70. (London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1874).
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